Thomas S. Monson Quotes
Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.
Monson, Thomas S. "The Lighthouse of the Lord." Ensign, Nov. 1990, p. 95.
French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes The diplomatic, financial and military assistance of France was critical to American survival at that time.
This is the origin of the description of America as the “asylum for mankind.” The word in this context indicates a place of safety and refuge.
Thomas Spencer Monson was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As president, he was considered by adherents of the religion to be a prophet, seer, and revelator. Monson's early career was as a manager at the Deseret News, a Utah newspaper owned by the LDS Church. He spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and public service.